Obama's neglect of the netroots bores progressive bloggers; Obama's broad coalition of supporters, cultivated online, may negate the need for the netroots; dueling "red telephone" ads and a much-needed parody; six seconds of silence on a Clinton campaign call; a new aggregation site has a misleading about page; what if Bloomie were stilling running?; and Off The Bus profiles a whopping 200 superdelegates.
1 comment | Read more ...Black netroots activists are pressing the CBC on Obama as John Lewis Ditches Clinton.
| Read more ...The "Yes We Can" continues to inspire pro-candidate songs good and bad; new petitions call for transparency about the superdelegates and an opening up of the Democratic nomination process; a new way to visualize the delegate counts; in search of McCain-iana, we stumble upon a very eligible bachelor; About.com lists facts about the candidates marriages!; and investigating the source of Obama's Hopi wisdom. Here's a hint: it ain't the Nazis.
| Read more ...MoveOn members funnel more than $500,000 to the Obama campaign, end send out hundreds of thousands of GOTV notes; a new crop of nonprofits are creating political messaging, blurring the line between advocacy and electoral politics; a chart shows the most popular candidates on Twitter; a sneaky move to redirect folks looking for Mitt Romney (who are they?) to Mike Huckabee's site; the cult of the Obama or a genuine movement?; unexciting headlines about moderately interesting things; and the Obama campaign wants to control the fight against superdelegates.
| Read more ...Emailing Democratic superdelegates; divining why Silicon Valley voting for Clinton; youth registration and voting keeps rising; rating the best political data visualizations; Obama and Clinton keep raising huge amounts online, with Obama pulling away; meanwhile GOP efforts look flat; Obama vs U2?; Hillary's plugging her url a lot more; and viral political video here and in Australia
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